Crimea

In the borderlands near Crimea, there is a war for the hearts and minds of Ukrainian citizens.

Russia forcibly annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. The international community does not recognize Russian sovereignty over the peninsula.

The tech giant's apps are doing what the European Union and the U.S. won't: Recognizing Russia's annexation of the peninsula seized from Ukraine. Users in Russia will see it as part of their country.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the television show parallels of President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and the call between them at the center of an impeachment inquiry.

The schism between Ukrainian churches and the Russia Orthodox Church culminated Saturday in the creation of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, angering Russian religious and political leaders.

It's not by chance that the countries' 4 1/2-year conflict has taken on a naval dimension. Moscow is further imposing on Kiev its annexation of Crimea.

Russia's military already has three of the S-400 "Triumf" divisions on the Black Sea peninsula; it plans to have another in place and operational by the year's end.

The winner of the Sakharov Prize is Ukrainian film director turned activist Oleg Sentsov who is serving a lengthy prison sentence in Russia, accused of plotting to bomb sites in Crimea.

Authorities say an 18-year-old student went on a shooting rampage and then killed himself. An explosion also reportedly went off in the school's cafeteria.

A once-secret underground naval base in Crimea designed to preserve Soviet submarines in case of a nuclear attack is now a museum with an anti-American message.

"Maybe something positive will come out of it," the president said. The date for the summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be announced on Thursday. It could come in July.